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We're looking at a Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood-style reboot here.

 

This isn't the only anime coming back this season.

 

We've also got season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen...

 

There's more Horimiya, though not exactly a season 2...

 

Bleach is back, again...

 

Baki is back...

 

There's also some great looking anime that's either coming or has already begun.

 

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses...

 

Zom 100...

 

I love these games, so it's great to see Atelier Ryza getting its own shine...

 

Let's also not forget the GOAT of the summer anime season. Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon...

 

If that, alone, didn't convince you into subscribing to Crunchyroll, I don't know what will.

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12 minutes ago, Reputator said:

Oh thank god, it's 2D animation. Now I'm actually interested. Maybe in this one Kenshin will finally get to nut inside Kaoru.

 

This new series is set to cover the entire manga, so it should end with Kenji's introduction...so, probably. It'll be a while before we get there, though. Depending on the pace, we're probably looking at some 48 or so episodes before we do.

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I'm not sure people are interested in the manga anymore because of manga-ka Nobuhiro Watsuki's child pornography crimes but not only is there a new anime adaptation of the original 28 volume run of the Kenshin manga, but Watsuki's been writing a sequel manga to the original Rurouni Kenshin since 2017 called Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc. I haven't read it but I figured Kenshin fans would want to know if they didn't already. It has eight volumes out already and is currently ongoing. Given Watsuki's crimes I'm not sure I want to get into the manga ever again and instead stick to the anime made by a bunch of other people at this point who are all not Watsuki.

 

I wonder if this new adaptation will go right into covering the Hokkaido Arc as well after it gets done the original 28 volumes?

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55 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

There's a new Ruroni Kenshin?!

 

It's a Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood-style reboot, so it'll more closely follow the original manga without any of the filler.

 

35 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

I'm not sure people are interested in the manga anymore because of manga-ka Nobuhiro Watsuki's child pornography crimes but not only is there a new anime adaptation of the original 28 volume run of the Kenshin manga, but Watsuki's been writing a sequel manga to the original Rurouni Kenshin since 2017 called Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc. I haven't read it but I figured Kenshin fans would want to know if they didn't already. It has eight volumes out already and is currently ongoing.

 

I wonder if this new adaptation will go right into covering the Hokkaido Arc as well after it gets done the original 28 volumes?

 

Yeah, as far as I'm aware, after he was arrested his wife took on a larger role of writing the story. She's been involved with Kenshin for decades. His entire arrest is kind of wild. He was part of a sting operation, but then let off with a ¥200k fine and put back on the streets without much of a fight. It's super weird. Japanese law is disgustingly weak for CP, but even then I think the law there is up to a year and a ¥1m fine per incident. The initial reports sounded really bad, but I don't know how he managed to skirt away with barely a slap on the wrist. I'm sure this dude can afford a $1400 fine.

 

As far as I'm aware, yes, this anime is supposed to cover the Hokkaido Arc as long as things go well. That's really the only reason for a full reboot. The Hokkaido Arc is doing very well in spite of Viz killing distribution in the States. However, because of the direction the 96 anime went, especially with 2001's Reflection, I don't see how you'd be able to pick up from there and continue on with the sequel manga.

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23 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

Yeah, as far as I'm aware, after he was arrested his wife took on a larger role of writing the story. She's been involved with Kenshin for decades. His entire arrest is kind of wild. He was part of a sting operation, but then let off with a ¥200k fine and put back on the streets without much of a fight. It's super weird. Japanese law is disgustingly weak for CP, but even then I think the law there is up to a year and a ¥1m fine per incident. The initial reports sounded really bad, but I don't know how he managed to skirt away with barely a slap on the wrist. I'm sure this dude can afford a $1400 fine.

 

Agreed - he only paid $1,500 USD (as you said in yen) in fines for having over 100 DVD's of real people child pornography? It's crazy. Hokkaido Arc was point on hold in Nov. 2017 but then picked right back up by February 2018 or something. I believe his wife gets co-credit on Hokkaido Arc.

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2 hours ago, Reputator said:

 

This I know. They didn't in the TV show though.

They did in the follow up Anime that took place before and after the show. I think it was called Samurai X here or something stupid. Anywho, I own all of the volumes of the manga and coincidentally enough just got them out of storage while I was in Jersey and shipped them and some of my other old manga to me. Should be here Monday hopefully!

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First episode of Kenshin really feels like a more streamlined episode. It starts and ends in the same place, but it improves pacing by taking more time to breath and skipping some of the goofiness of the first episode of the 96 series. I like it, but Kenshin has always been my perfect samurai anime. Just the right mix of super human feats while being grounded enough to not feel as ridiculous as it really is.

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14 hours ago, Rev said:

Rurouni Kenshin remake was pretty fun. Seems promising. The vending machine one jumped the hell out of the isekai shark but was surprisingly entertaining for what it is. 

 

Finally watched Reborn as a Vending Machine and it is SO much better than it has any right to be. It's so dumb, but plays things so sincerely it loops back around and becomes enjoyable. I think I'll keep watching.

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I'm also finally binging Mushoku Tensei after putting it off for a while and it's pretty good imo, but like every few episodes or so, the MC suddenly does or says something shockingly and unforgivably creepy and disgusting. I get that Japan is has a different culture but holy fuck. 

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15 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

They did in the follow up Anime that took place before and after the show. I think it was called Samurai X here or something stupid. Anywho, I own all of the volumes of the manga and coincidentally enough just got them out of storage while I was in Jersey and shipped them and some of my other old manga to me. Should be here Monday hopefully!

 

Just to clarify, Kenji (Kenshin and Kaoru's son) only appears in Samurai X: Reflection (since being re-licensed in the US it is now Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection) which is a sequel that half-asses adapting the final Revenge arc of the manga since the TV series didn't adapt it. It tries to adapt a 10-volume arc in 2 OVA episodes. It's pretty and beautiful and well directed but not a great capper to the TV series. It should be noted that the third and final season of the TV series was complete filler (and much worse than the two seasons that preceded it) since the manga wasn't finished yet. Reflection was an attempt to go back and adapt that final arc after the TV series ended. Reflection jumps forward and backward in time within itself, but all of it takes place as a sequel to the TV series.

 

The prequel, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (has also been re-titled since it got re-licensed to the proper Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal) is a four episode OVA and is outstanding. But Kenji does not appear. This is completely separate from Reflection and is entirely a prequel. Both of these OVA's do have the same more serious, adult, mature animation style that's quite pretty, and they're made by the same team that made the TV series, but one is good and one is bad, one has Kenji and one does not. :)

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5 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Just to clarify, Kenji (Kenshin and Kaoru's son) only appears in Samurai X: Reflection (since being re-licensed in the US it is now Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection) which is a sequel that half-asses adapting the final Revenge arc of the manga since the TV series didn't adapt it. It tries to adapt a 10-volume arc in 2 OVA episodes. It's pretty and beautiful and well directed but not a great capper to the TV series. It should be noted that the third and final season of the TV series was complete filler (and much worse than the two seasons that preceded it) since the manga wasn't finished yet. Reflection was an attempt to go back and adapt that final arc after the TV series ended. Reflection jumps forward and backward in time within itself, but all of it takes place as a sequel to the TV series.

 

The prequel, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (has also been re-titled since it got re-licensed to the proper Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal) is a four episode OVA and is outstanding. But Kenji does not appear. This is completely separate from Reflection and is entirely a prequel. Both of these OVA's do have the same more serious, adult, mature animation style that's quite pretty, and they're made by the same team that made the TV series, but one is good and one is bad, one has Kenji and one does not. :)

Yeah I really enjoyed the the OVA'S a lot. Like I said I own all of the volumes of the manga (they just arrived today actually after I shipped them to myself from my parent's house) so the Sequel OVA didn't bother me as much because I knew what they left out in it's truncated form. The Prequel series is one of my favorite animes of all time though. I had no idea about the author's issues though crazy... and they were able to not only get three movies made but a new series as well? Wow.

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2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

F. Jujutsu Kaisen seems to only be on Crunchyroll now. S1 was on HBO Max but they purged all of their anime. :|

 

It was always been Crunchyroll, but part of the Crunchyroll package HBO was licensing.

 

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

What’s also weird is that the trailer for S2 in the OP is advertising Prime Video, but it’s not included with Prime

 

It's Crunchyroll only in countries they operate in. Amazon gets it everywhere else.

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26 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

@Ghost_MH is this entire season of Jujutsu Kaisen a flashback? Watched the first episode of S2 and am a little confused 

 

I believe the plan is to cover one other arc after this current one. Unless something changed, season 2 is slated for 23 episodes. Seems the first five will be enough to cover the flashback arc and then the final 18 will be spent on the Shibuya arc, which takes place in the present.

 

There's already enough manga for a season 3, so I don't believe there will be any time or need for filler or stretching things further than they'd need to.

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Am I the only person that thought yesterday's big One Pice episode was a failure of pacing and directing.  Like, WTF. I can't be the only one that thought the episode was actually pretty bad for what should have been a big, "Goku going SSJ for the first time" event.

 

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The first chunk of the episode was just slow padding from the end of last week's. Then you had that damn reused animation of Luffy bouncing around that was used three or four times. They spent so much time padding Puffy's transformation, they didn't have enough time to allow the final scenes between Hiyori and Orochi to actually breath. That scene should have been impactful, but it was just kind of squeezed in there. I don't normally watch the One Piece anime and just read the manga. I get that it was mostly inserted in the same place, time-wise. It was just very clumsily inserted. It should have lasted a few minutes and been the final scene before going to commercial.

 

Then you get to the fight and it was nearly inscrutable. I get that it's supposed to be wacky rubber hose animation goofiness, but I'm not really sure I would have understood what was going on if not for having read these chapters in the manga already. I know Toei isn't the best, but come on. Watching this hurt.

 

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42 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

Am I the only person that thought yesterday's big One Pice episode was a failure of pacing and directing.  Like, WTF. I can't be the only one that thought the episode was actually pretty bad for what should have been a big, "Goku going SSJ for the first time" event.

 

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I'm on episode 532 of One Piece, been meaning to do another binge to catch up some at least again (I've always been behind) so yeah, not in the 1000's yet. :p 

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3 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I'm on episode 532 of One Piece, been meaning to do another binge to catch up some at least again (I've always been behind) so yeah, not in the 1000's yet. :p 

 

I'm pretty sure I've seen fewer than a hundred episodes of One Piece. I read the manga and only watch specific fights and big events in the anime. I was really looking forward to these episodes and was sorely disappointed in what we got.

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1 minute ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

I'm pretty sure I've seen fewer than a hundred episodes of One Piece. I read the manga and only watch specific fights and big events in the anime. I was really looking forward to these episodes and was sorely disappointed in what we got.

 

That sucks. :( I'd heard the recent run of episodes (like the last 200) were really good and I knew people were hype for what was about to happen in the show so it's a shame it didn't meet expectations. I used to read the manga, I probably should do that instead of watching the anime since it'd go faster but now I'm already on the hook. :p It's an anime I do watch subbed as well.

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I keep forgetting that if something big is shown in the end of episode preview for the next episode, it will be at least 1 episode more before what's hinted at actually happens. Hopefully the next episode is good.

 

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Also it's really weird how last summer Luffy and Kaido were fighting and then I saw news from the manga that Luffy beat Kaido but that still hasn't happened yet in the show.

 

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